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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Don McKellar | Kristen Stewart | Léa Seydoux | Lihi Kornowski | Nadia Litz | Scott Speedman | Viggo Mortensen
Brett says: “David Cronenberg returns to his ‘Cronenbergian ways’ in this film full of his body horror, shock and awe oddities that delight some, deter others, and appall … well, everyone. That’s not to say CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is
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Director: Benedict Andrews
Starring: Gabriel Sky | Jack O'Connell | Kristen Stewart | Yvan Attal
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Director: Justin Kelly
Starring: Diane Kruger | Jim Sturgess | Kristen Stewart | Laura Dern
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Kristen Stewart | Lars Eidinger | Nora von Waldstätten | Sigrid Bouaziz | Ty Olwin
Thom says: “French director Olivier Assayas has been something of an in-and-outer director for me but his best films are indeed world class brilliant. I loved CLEAN (2004), SUMMER HOURS (2008), CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2014), & especially DEMONLOVER, my
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: James Le Gros | Jared Harris | Kristen Stewart | Laura Dern | LilyGladstone | Michelle Williams
Michael says: “I haven’t seen all of Kelly Reichardt’s films, but CERTAIN WOMEN is the fourth, and the most fully realized in a string of strong films including OLD JOY, WENDY & LUCY, and MEEKS’ CUTOFF. Based on a collection
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Glatzer | Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Julianne Moore | Kate Bosworth | Kristen Stewart
Chris says: “Destined to be remembered for its outstanding lead performance and little else, STILL ALICE is a competent literary adaptation about a Columbia University linguistics professor diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Alice Howland is a juicy role
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Alice Braga | Amy Adams | Elisabeth Moss | Garrett Hedlund | Kristen Stewart | Sam Riley | Tom Sturridge
Chris says: “The best one can say about this, the first filmed version of Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel is that it’s not embarrassing. If that sounds like faint praise, it aptly mirrors the film’s modest ambitions. Rather than transform
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Flora Sigismondi
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Dakota Fanning | Kristen Stewart | Michael Shannon | Scout Taylor-Compton | Stella Maeve
TC says: “If you were around in the late 70s, you know the kind of sexist conditions that girls who wanted to rock out ran into. That’s the ultimate story behind THE RUNAWAYS, the story of the groundbreaking all-girl punk
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Bruce Dern | Elizabeth Ashley | Jayce Bartok | Kristen Stewart | Melissa Leo | Miriam Shor
Jeff says: “Mary Stuart Masterson, in her directorial debut, tells the story of a patriarch (the increasingly crusty Bruce Dern) and his two sons, coming to terms with the death of the family’s mother. Features a pre-Bella Kristen Stewart as
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Dermot Mulroney | Devon Alan | Eddie Rouse | Jamie Bell | Josh Lucas | Kristen Stewart | Patrice Johnson | Robert Longstreet
Bruce says: “**ATTENTION SPOILERS** “UNDERTOW is the latest film from David Gordon Green, director of GEORGE WASHINGTON and ALL THE REAL GIRLS. This is the first film which he did not write himself. Again, Green proves beyond a doubt that
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